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...'. Zoology had been taught at Edinburgh since 1767 as part of the Natural History course. The Chair of Zoology was founded in 1919. ...s Hartley Ashworth (1874-1936)]], 1919-1927, became Professor of [[Natural History]]

...gy, for he and others founded the Society for the Investigation of Natural History in 1782. ...he cabinets housing them, were added to the University's [[Natural History Museum]] and a selection of the books to the University Library; the 823 books hav

*[[Natural History]] (1767) ...ew extension for the [[Library|University Library]], a new natural history museum, and plans for a new college building which would only see fruition after R

...Library (3 volumes, 1918-1923) which was ranked with those of the British Museum, the Bibliothèque Nationale and the London Library as the four greatest Eu

...ery in 1874. Ewart found employment in London as Curator of the Zoological Museum at University College, and also published a number of papers on the structu ...n Britain. In 1882 Ewart secured the post of Regius Professor of [[Natural History]] at the University of Edinburgh, a position he was to hold for 45 years.

...ction in a newly built Museum of Science and Art. The Professor of Natural History would remain Keeper of the strictly scientific part of the collection, but ...ost and proved both an inspiring teacher and a conscientious keeper of the museum. Wilson defined technology ‘as science in its application to the useful a